The flip side of that is that they are still figuring out how to optimize gameplay on the PS3, seven years later, and ever game a studio does marks an improvement. Sony hasn't even had to announce the PS4 yet, because they are not done with PS3 as a platform. (Heck, they are still technically supporting the PS2!)
Instead of being the first console of the next generation, the Wii U is Nintendo's second console for the "current" generation.
I'm not sure their method for suppressing consciousness is as locked down as they believe it is. Someone with a near-eidetic memory could take a "snapshot" of the static image in one eye, and hold it in conscious memory even while dealing with the images in the other eye. (Frankly, video games have taught us how to do this sort of stuff quite well.)
And even if this is the case, I'm not sure what, if any, useful information we can extra from the study, other than "this is cool."
Michael Davenport lost both his hands and most of his lower arms, as well as some toes and part of one foot, when he was accidentally electrocuted as a thirteen year old. At some point he was inspired to pick up a permanent marker in his mouth and sketch that way; he draws Georgia Bulldogs (with permission from the university these days - who would deny a license to a dude with no arms?) and sells them to alumni, thus making a pretty decent living. I have one of his marker sketches in my kitchen. On dry days, you can find him in downtown Athens, marker in mouth, working on a canvas. He also does commissions and wall murals for alumni for their "Georgia rooms" - charging upwards of a thousand dollars for a large wall mural. (He can also do stuff besides red and black bulldogs - I once saw him do a commission for the Georgia Theater in full color.)
As for TFA, seems like the guy has no creative urges when he's on meds. I'm glad he found a different way to express himself.
SMF has been the most error free of the various systems I've admin'd over the last decade. The only time the entire forum went down was when I forgot to renew the domain by accident.
I have to do triple double or level security passes, including a one time security token, to get into quite a few MMOs. They had to; many RMT organizations made a profit hacking and looting accounts by using keyloggers to obtain passwords.
My desk has an under desk rack for all the wires to run through. I think it was $12 at Ikea. That, combined with some cheap velcro cable ties, will do the trick. (The biggest velcro cable ties I've seen are in a server closet, with a bundle of about 250 CAT5 cables all neatly bundled up like a really fat ponytail. It came out of the ceiling, taking up an entire ceiling tile square. It was a thing of beauty, especially how it gracefully descended to connect each jack in a perfect arc to the switch.)
Just a DBAN and a clean windows installation should be enough - assuming the system boots, anyway. Many of the warranty places will reject repairs on your system if you've pulled the hard drive out (you "attempted self repair" or some crap.)
Actually, one of the games I play gives users the option of 8426 for directional controls, with 7 controlling walking speed, 9 and 3 controlling zoom, and the arrow keys controlling pan and tilt on the camera. This worked great since the mouse was totally unnecessary for any movement. Switching to a "compact" keyboard permitted normal WASD movement, but that was primary for laptops without keyboards. I was really disappointed when a newer game from the studio had dropped the optional numerical number movement and switched to pure WASD, because it wasn't as intuitive to me. And it also assumed I was going to use the mouse. I believe you can still get a keyboard with the number pad on the left; the company that makes the ergo Vertical Mouse sells it.
At least with Drop box, even if the cloud goes down I still have all my local copies. Won't stop the feds from digging around my data, but at least I won't have to fight in court to get it back.
All of our BDR servers also run on a triplicate model - the original data, the data on the backup server, and a copy of the most critical data in the cloud just in case the building catches on fire.
The weird split ergo keyboard that many folks either loved or hated comes to mind. I'm happy with my hybrid, a cheap Microsoft "comfort curve" that gives some of the alignment effect of the ergo-board without actually separating the keys.
I also had a really nifty folding accordion keyboard for my Palm Pilot a decade ago. After folding, it was locked up tight in its permanent hard case, and it was safer than the actual Palm (and about the same size.)
And now Microsoft's new integrated smart cover keyboards are a thing.
Whatever happened to the laser keyboard? I'm surprised it didn't take off.
My issue with iTunes was never the interface. It was usually pretty intuitive. My problem was the lag - the program was always clunky and slow to respond, and on my laptop would sometimes lock up completely. The stability issues didn't seem to affect my workstation, but it was still rather laggy. I don't ask for much out of my software, but a quick response from the program interface is one thing. That's why I've stuck with Winamp over the years and just manually managed my music collection.
Micron is my suggestion as well. The extremely fine ones sometimes dry up too fast, but since they have a good variety of widths you can play with different line widths until you find the happy medium. Many artists I know who do line work swear by them.
Touch screen computer built into the wall with Internet access. Bookmarks to recipe websites, Food network, and a calendar/planning system for keeping track of food inventories. A small printer to print out labels for foods. Also, iTunes or Pandora, and a good 5.1 speaker system set up throughout the kitchen.
More counter space than any one person could ever possibly need - or so you'd think. Two stoves, two ovens (one convection.) A central island with a bar on one side. A large dry pantry. An entire wall cabinet dedicated to storing cooking dishes. Two refrigerators. A deep freezer. A microwave oven that doesn't have an LCD interface left over from 1985. (Good lord that pisses me off. $350 for an over-the-stove microwave, and the display still only handles 8 characters at a time. What the hell, Maytag?!)
Proper track lighting overhead, and recessed lighting under the top cabinets. One counter taken up by a giant chopping block cutting board. Good tile floor, not linoleum. A comfortable rug in front of the main stove. A proper tile backsplash behind the sink. That new no-touch on-off faucet I've been seen commercials for that basically predicts whether you need the water on by your body language.
I heartily second this. Our house was built with a central cable box and cable in every bedroom. If I had had a hand in building that, it'd have been Ethernet instead. This is probably one of the cheapest "upgrades" you can do once a house is taken down to stud boards, since the cable is cheap on a spool and the end clamps are a dime apiece in bulk. Then just install a commercial grade router to run DHCP for your dozen net drops.
I "passed" the ASVAB when I was seven. (Disclaimer: my dad taught the remedial courses for it.) In retrospect, I feel sorry for the young GIs who were doing the remedial coursework. Had to suck to have a little brat girl showing them how to do the fractions on those old Apple IIes, and how to match up the gears properly.
This is correct. My school had a psychologist come and evaluate me and several other students in middle school, because the standard test was limited and we were scoring "perfect" scores on it. One of my classmates was re-estimated to have an IQ of 160; mine was marked around 140 with "no math ceiling." (I later found this out to be untrue. I have mild discalculia.) Most of us were shuffled off to the gifted program until high school.
Iodine is critical for mental development in childhood and necessary for metabolism as an adult. It's also one of the nutrients that is hardest to get from a diet without variety (especially salt water fish) because it is leeched out from soil and run to the ocean. Iodized salt has meant that the average human being around the world is less iodine deprived and thus not as likely to have mental deficiencies from the deprivation.
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The flip side of that is that they are still figuring out how to optimize gameplay on the PS3, seven years later, and ever game a studio does marks an improvement. Sony hasn't even had to announce the PS4 yet, because they are not done with PS3 as a platform. (Heck, they are still technically supporting the PS2!)
Instead of being the first console of the next generation, the Wii U is Nintendo's second console for the "current" generation.
I'm not sure their method for suppressing consciousness is as locked down as they believe it is. Someone with a near-eidetic memory could take a "snapshot" of the static image in one eye, and hold it in conscious memory even while dealing with the images in the other eye. (Frankly, video games have taught us how to do this sort of stuff quite well.)
And even if this is the case, I'm not sure what, if any, useful information we can extra from the study, other than "this is cool."
Michael Davenport lost both his hands and most of his lower arms, as well as some toes and part of one foot, when he was accidentally electrocuted as a thirteen year old. At some point he was inspired to pick up a permanent marker in his mouth and sketch that way; he draws Georgia Bulldogs (with permission from the university these days - who would deny a license to a dude with no arms?) and sells them to alumni, thus making a pretty decent living. I have one of his marker sketches in my kitchen. On dry days, you can find him in downtown Athens, marker in mouth, working on a canvas. He also does commissions and wall murals for alumni for their "Georgia rooms" - charging upwards of a thousand dollars for a large wall mural. (He can also do stuff besides red and black bulldogs - I once saw him do a commission for the Georgia Theater in full color.)
As for TFA, seems like the guy has no creative urges when he's on meds. I'm glad he found a different way to express himself.
SMF has been the most error free of the various systems I've admin'd over the last decade. The only time the entire forum went down was when I forgot to renew the domain by accident.
I have to do triple double or level security passes, including a one time security token, to get into quite a few MMOs. They had to; many RMT organizations made a profit hacking and looting accounts by using keyloggers to obtain passwords.
Considering how many times they hit me up for money over the campaign (and I tossed in three bucks each time) they got a lot of American cash, too.
Hopefully the Republicans can find a better candidate than a used car salesman next time. And hire a better IT staff.
My desk has an under desk rack for all the wires to run through. I think it was $12 at Ikea. That, combined with some cheap velcro cable ties, will do the trick. (The biggest velcro cable ties I've seen are in a server closet, with a bundle of about 250 CAT5 cables all neatly bundled up like a really fat ponytail. It came out of the ceiling, taking up an entire ceiling tile square. It was a thing of beauty, especially how it gracefully descended to connect each jack in a perfect arc to the switch.)
Early voting ftw. There was a line at the time, but not a bad one. Afterward I went across the street and had a beer.
That's not really a physical repair. That's just a sick system. But you have a point.
Just a DBAN and a clean windows installation should be enough - assuming the system boots, anyway. Many of the warranty places will reject repairs on your system if you've pulled the hard drive out (you "attempted self repair" or some crap.)
Actually, one of the games I play gives users the option of 8426 for directional controls, with 7 controlling walking speed, 9 and 3 controlling zoom, and the arrow keys controlling pan and tilt on the camera. This worked great since the mouse was totally unnecessary for any movement. Switching to a "compact" keyboard permitted normal WASD movement, but that was primary for laptops without keyboards. I was really disappointed when a newer game from the studio had dropped the optional numerical number movement and switched to pure WASD, because it wasn't as intuitive to me. And it also assumed I was going to use the mouse. I believe you can still get a keyboard with the number pad on the left; the company that makes the ergo Vertical Mouse sells it.
All the more reason to learn how to do your own PC repairs.
At least with Drop box, even if the cloud goes down I still have all my local copies. Won't stop the feds from digging around my data, but at least I won't have to fight in court to get it back.
All of our BDR servers also run on a triplicate model - the original data, the data on the backup server, and a copy of the most critical data in the cloud just in case the building catches on fire.
The weird split ergo keyboard that many folks either loved or hated comes to mind. I'm happy with my hybrid, a cheap Microsoft "comfort curve" that gives some of the alignment effect of the ergo-board without actually separating the keys.
I also had a really nifty folding accordion keyboard for my Palm Pilot a decade ago. After folding, it was locked up tight in its permanent hard case, and it was safer than the actual Palm (and about the same size.)
And now Microsoft's new integrated smart cover keyboards are a thing.
Whatever happened to the laser keyboard? I'm surprised it didn't take off.
Long ago, they should have just put in a copyright request for i* - paving the way in the future for the iTV, the iE-Cig, the iCar, etc...
My issue with iTunes was never the interface. It was usually pretty intuitive. My problem was the lag - the program was always clunky and slow to respond, and on my laptop would sometimes lock up completely. The stability issues didn't seem to affect my workstation, but it was still rather laggy. I don't ask for much out of my software, but a quick response from the program interface is one thing. That's why I've stuck with Winamp over the years and just manually managed my music collection.
Micron is my suggestion as well. The extremely fine ones sometimes dry up too fast, but since they have a good variety of widths you can play with different line widths until you find the happy medium. Many artists I know who do line work swear by them.
Well, that's why it's a dream kitchen. My actual kitchen is 8x8 and I do well enough in it, but only because my computer desk is about five feet away.
Touch screen computer built into the wall with Internet access. Bookmarks to recipe websites, Food network, and a calendar/planning system for keeping track of food inventories. A small printer to print out labels for foods. Also, iTunes or Pandora, and a good 5.1 speaker system set up throughout the kitchen.
More counter space than any one person could ever possibly need - or so you'd think. Two stoves, two ovens (one convection.) A central island with a bar on one side. A large dry pantry. An entire wall cabinet dedicated to storing cooking dishes. Two refrigerators. A deep freezer. A microwave oven that doesn't have an LCD interface left over from 1985. (Good lord that pisses me off. $350 for an over-the-stove microwave, and the display still only handles 8 characters at a time. What the hell, Maytag?!)
Proper track lighting overhead, and recessed lighting under the top cabinets. One counter taken up by a giant chopping block cutting board. Good tile floor, not linoleum. A comfortable rug in front of the main stove. A proper tile backsplash behind the sink. That new no-touch on-off faucet I've been seen commercials for that basically predicts whether you need the water on by your body language.
Perhaps the parents are moving to Florida?
I heartily second this. Our house was built with a central cable box and cable in every bedroom. If I had had a hand in building that, it'd have been Ethernet instead. This is probably one of the cheapest "upgrades" you can do once a house is taken down to stud boards, since the cable is cheap on a spool and the end clamps are a dime apiece in bulk. Then just install a commercial grade router to run DHCP for your dozen net drops.
I "passed" the ASVAB when I was seven. (Disclaimer: my dad taught the remedial courses for it.) In retrospect, I feel sorry for the young GIs who were doing the remedial coursework. Had to suck to have a little brat girl showing them how to do the fractions on those old Apple IIes, and how to match up the gears properly.
This is correct. My school had a psychologist come and evaluate me and several other students in middle school, because the standard test was limited and we were scoring "perfect" scores on it. One of my classmates was re-estimated to have an IQ of 160; mine was marked around 140 with "no math ceiling." (I later found this out to be untrue. I have mild discalculia.) Most of us were shuffled off to the gifted program until high school.
Iodine is critical for mental development in childhood and necessary for metabolism as an adult. It's also one of the nutrients that is hardest to get from a diet without variety (especially salt water fish) because it is leeched out from soil and run to the ocean. Iodized salt has meant that the average human being around the world is less iodine deprived and thus not as likely to have mental deficiencies from the deprivation.